![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Aish Kodesh 02/14/13 Parsha Terumah, Rabbi Henoch Dov Hoffman - Rabbi Henoch Dov Hoffman, Tsivya Aish Kodesh February 14, 2013 Parsha Terumah Joseph had to go to prison measure-for-measure for lashon hara against his brothers when he tattled to Yaakov. Each story has a mitzvote to help us remember what we learn. Joseph goes to prison on a false charge because he didnât investigate to see that the calf had been born from a schechted mother. This is called giving the benefit of the doubt. We never see the full picture... Keywords: Mental static; emotional static; Shemona Essray; Four Worlds; prayer; trapped; snake; needs; wants; help; rescue; Purim; clothes; choose; yetzer hara; gevurah; shell; silver; Terumah; cherubs; busyness Downloads: 69 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Aish Kodesh 02/07/08 Parsha Terumah, Rabbi Henoch Dov Hoffman - Henoch Dov Hoffman, Tsivya The Aish Kodesh, Rabbi Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto, Sacred Fire--class discussing: Heaven and hell are the same place depending on your point of view; using your weakness to strengthen others; having fantasies of trust that we can make better choices, Binah: intuitiohn, understanding two opposites such as good and evil coming from one source; Divine Light and Divine Inspiration; sleep being an inferior form of death, dreams being an inferior form of prophesy, Shabbos being an inferio... Keywords: Aish Kodesh; Terumah; strengths; weaknesses; dichotomy; teshuvah; conduits of energy Downloads: 44 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Aish Kodesh 02/23/2012 Terumah Purim - Rabbi Henoch Dov Hoffman, Tsivya February 23, 2012 Aish Kodesh Terumah Favorite quotes: For people to choose to be in relationship with me, because Iâm so powerful, I have to choose to disappear. Moshe can teach from a place of success and great intellect. Those are things that men are comfortable with. But Esther can teach from the empty receiving vessel. Student: Shabbos is supposed to not having plans, and I was thinking how paradoxical that it is bounded by a strict sense of time, that you have to set a certain time to be ... Keywords: Avoda; Queen Esther; Mordechai; Haman; abandonment; time; holy beggers; right brain; left brain; masculine waters; feminine waters Downloads: 8 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Aish Kodesh 02/18/10 Terumah Purim - Henoch Dov Hoffman, Tsivya You have to give three half shekels for Purim. This parsha is not in chronological order. We should have the Golden Calf before the Mishkan because the cure comes before the disease. But in real life the Golden Calf came first, while in the Torah the order was reversed. The Red Heiffer atoned for chate, also building the Mishkan offered atonement because it required gold and silver (to correct the gold and silver used to make the Golden Calf)... Keywords: Luchos; broken Tablets; gevurah; Purim; blank page; fiery letters; Anti-Semitism; Rome; Yom Kippur; Divine Light; Divine Inspiration; Divine Reward Downloads: 16 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Gemara Berachos 15b1 Summary - Rabbi Henoch Dov Hoffman Gemara Berachos 15b1 ~ click here for audio: 1. Can a deaf person recite the Shema, read aloud the Megillah, say the Bracha over the Terumah? 2. How do I remove my ego from problem solving . . . why are there always areas of gray? 3. Can we have an argument for the sake of heaven by an examination of the areas of gray? 4. Problems: Why did G-D create total inequality in the world which gives rise to arguments? 5... Keywords: Talmud; Rosh Hashanah; Rabah; yotze; hearing; shema; deaf; mute; terumah; megillah; bracha; arguments; ego; problems Downloads: 56 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Gemara Berachos 15b1 Summary - Rabbi Henoch Dov Hoffman Gemara Berachos 15b1 ~ 1. Can a deaf person recite the Shema, read aloud the Megillah, say the Bracha over the Terumah? 2. How do I remove my ego from problem solving . . . why are there always areas of gray? 3. Can we have an argument for the sake of heaven by an examination of the areas of gray? 4. Problems: Why did G-D create total inequality in the world which gives rise to arguments? 5. How important is âsoundâ âtypes of soundsâ and âhearingâ For example, in Talmud Rosh Hashanah 28 we... Keywords: deaf; gemara; berachos; megillah; shema; terumah; ego; arguments; ootze Downloads: 44 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Aish Kodesh 02/21/2013 Parsha Tetzaveh - Rabbi Henoch Dov Hoffman, Tsivya Aish Kodesh February 21, 2013 It starts: You will command the children of Israel, plural, and you will take yourself, singular, each person will take pure olive oil to illuminate, raise, the nair tamid, eternal candle. Why does it go from plural to singular and what is pure olive oil? It is clarified wisdom. Messiah means anointed with pure olive oil. HaShem is commanding that each Jew is anointed with pure olive oil and thatâs a symbol of simcha because moving the letter yud to the right and i... Keywords: Clothing; Amalak; Purim; life force; cherubim; simcha; terumahs; regel; foot; habit; gems; golden calf; approval; masculine; feminine; netzach; hod; yesod; jumping Downloads: 37 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Aish Kodesh 02/23/2012 Parsha Teruma, Purim - Rabbi Henoch Dov Hoffman, Tsivya February 23, 2012 Aish Kodesh Terumah Favorite quotes: For people to choose to be in relationship with me, because Iâm so powerful, I have to choose to disappear. Moshe can teach from a place of success and great intellect. Those are things that men are comfortable with. But Esther can teach from the empty receiving vessel. Student: Shabbos is supposed to not having plans, and I was thinking how paradoxical that it is bounded by a strict sense of time, that you have to set a certain time to be ... Keywords: Abandonment; Esther; Haman; Mordechai; avoda; right brain; left brain; feminine waters; masculine waters Downloads: 17 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Aish Kodesh 03/12/09 Ki Sisa, Purim - Henoch Dov Hoffman, Tsivya The mother (Red Heifer/Para Duma) comes to clean up the mess of her daughter (Egel haZahav). There were only about nine Red Heifers which met all requirements: all hairs must be red except a maximum of two, never was with a bull, could not have done any work, which included never wearing a yoke or trampling grain. How does the Red Heifer prepare us for Pesach? How does the Pesach preparation match up with the four worlds? How is the Red Heifer related to the Golden Calf and the shekalim, which i... Keywords: Har Sinai; mishpat; khoke; egel; holy foolishness; acknowledgment of limitations; abandonment; Sun; perfectionism; control; Red Heifer; Golden Calf; ruthless compassion; dollar bill; Purim; King Saul; King David; Mikhail; atzuv; ahzove; Pesach; Four Shabboses; Four Worlds; shiva; cedar; hyssop; mikvah; scapegoating; Haman; rachamim; Rabbi Big; Rabbi Small; tumay; tahor; renewal; HaChodesh; Amalek; Zachor; half-shekel; Shekalilm; sloth; pathy; Cain; ain sof; eagle; Meshiach; cathect; toxic; Shulchan Aruch; lens Downloads: 44 |
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